# Backlees, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Stranorlar, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 492,943 m² (49.29 ha, 121.81 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,971 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Stranorlar, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/stranorlar.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Stranorlar, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Stranorlar electoral division: 4,706 people in 1,787 households; 61% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16536 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50131 - Centre: latitude 54.821766, longitude -7.777351 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Backlees, from 709 m² to 232,803 m² (23.28 ha, 57.53 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1302670: 232,803 m² (23.28 ha, 57.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302670.md - Parcel 1360709: 88,900 m² (8.89 ha, 21.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1360709.md - Parcel 1302669: 76,488 m² (7.65 ha, 18.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302669.md - Parcel 1302688: 68,813 m² (6.88 ha, 17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302688.md - Parcel 1357822: 5,894 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357822.md - Parcel 1360710: 5,593 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1360710.md - Parcel 3797983: 3,328 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3797983.md - Parcel 3098696: 2,273 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3098696.md - Parcel 3797980: 1,669 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3797980.md - Parcel 1347041: 1,447 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347041.md - Parcel 3098720: 1,394 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3098720.md - Parcel 3098695: 1,092 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3098695.md - Parcel 1309824: 944 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309824.md - Parcel 5812699: 772 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5812699.md - Parcel 1321499: 710 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321499.md - Parcel 1331634: 709 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331634.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Backlees in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 1 May 2026, Donegal County Council 2660775: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (1) RETENTION OF (A) DORMER WINDOWS TO REAR ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF DEMOLITION HEREIN) (B) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ATTACHED STORAGE SHED, (C) DETACHED GARDEN STORAGE SHED AND (D) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660775/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Backlees. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Backlees. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Backlees. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Backlees. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/backlees.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/backlees.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/backlees.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Backlees with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynaglack: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballynaglack.md - Drumboe Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumboe-upper.md - Dunwiley: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dunwiley.md - Lettermakenny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lettermakenny.md A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/backlees - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/backlees